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Speechless: Arne Quinze at Vicky David Gallery

Speechless is an evolving series that reviews, discusses and/or comments on art works and exhibitions using images, screenshots, videos and other visuals.

Robert Cicetti

April 12, 2012 — 2 min read

Speechless is an evolving series that reviews, discusses and/or comments on art works and exhibitions using images, screenshots, videos and other visuals. To guarantee that the sources are not lost, the information for each image is available when you roll-over it and/or when you click through. All images with no click throughs were taken by the author.

Arne Quinze, "My Secret Garden" (no date provided) Wood, paint, mirror, flowers, latex, plexi, electric lights, porcelain, metal, nails 63 x 138 2/9 x 11 7/9 inches (160 x 351 x 30 cm)

Phrenological chart of the faculties. (via Wikipedia)

Martin Wilner, "Phrenology" (2005) Ink on paper (not featured in, but relevant to) the current exhibition at Sperone Westwater

Closeup view: 1. Arne Quinze, "My Secret Garden" (no date provided) Wood, paint, mirror, flowers, latex, plexi, electric lights, porcelain, metal, nails 63 x 138 2/9 x 11 7/9 inches (160 x 351 x 30 cm)

Image of synaptic transmission in neuronal networks using FRAP (fluorescence recovery after photobleaching). via the Silver Lab

Arne Quinze, "Chaos Box" (2011) Wood, paint, mirror 16 8/9 x 30 2/3 x 6 2/3 inches (43 x 78 x 17 cm).

Colored Scanning Electron Micrograph (SEM) of a human blood clot. via Google image search

Electron microscope image of blood clot. via FEI electron microscopes

Arne Quinze, “Bidonville City Small Orange 2” (2008) Wood, Polyurethane resin and Paint 51 1/4 x 43 x 12 inches

Arne Quinze, "Bidonville Apartment" (2011) Wood, paint, polyurethane, crayon 18 8/9 x 13 4/9 x 7 4/9 inches (48 x 34 x 19 cm)

Vico Magistretti, “Apartments, Piazzale Aquileia, Milan, Italy” (1964-65) via fuckyeahbrutalism

Marrakech (Morocco) from Rudolfsky’s Architecture Without Architects via Patrick Bourgeois' visual essay Labyrinthine Cities "Vernacular architecture does not go through fashion cycles. It is nearly immutable, indeed, unimprovable, since it serves its purpose to perfection."

Arne Quinze, "Bidonville View" (2011) Wood, polyurethane, paint 47 2/9 x 72 x 5 1/9 inches (120 x 183 x 13 cm)

Closeup view: Sam Songailo, “Media Centre Installation” (2010) via SpaceInvading

Marlon de Azambuja, “Abierto x Obras” (2009) Photo by Pepe Nomo

Sam Songailo, “Media Centre Installation” (2010) via SpaceInvading

Marlon de Azambuja, “Abierto x Obras” (2009) Photo by Pepe Nomo

Arne Quinze, “Rebirth- Installation Paris, France” (June 27, 2008)

Arne Quinze, "Stilthouse Mansize" (2011) Wood, paint, electric lights 57 4/9 x 44 8/9 x 15 7/9 inches (146 x 114 x 40 cm)

Lebbeus Woods, “Havana, radically reconstructed” (1994) via ArchiTakes “All my work is still meant to evoke real architectural spaces. But what interests me is what the world would be like if we were free of conventional limits. Maybe I can show what could happen if we lived by a different set of rules.”

Constant Nieuwenhuys, “New Babylon. 0#5 in series of 10 lithographs” (1963) via Sims reed Rare Books

Arne Quinze, "My Secret Garden" (2011) Wood, paint, mirror 47 2/9 x 78 7/9 x 10 2/9 inches (120 x 200 x 26 cm) Photo by author and featured in mirror.

Arne Quinze has been extended at the Vicky David Gallery (522 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan) until Saturday, April 14.

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